Une démographie au féminin - A Female Demography
Risques et opportunités dans le parcours de vie - Risks and Chances in the Life Course
©2009
Collections
X,
360 Pages
Série:
Population, Famille et Société / Population, Family, and Society, Volume 11
Résumé
Comme l’ensemble des sciences sociales, la démographie historique a eu au cœur de ses études un féminin pourtant invisible, car caché derrière le couple, la famille ou le statut social (masculin). A l’origine de cet ouvrage se situe l’affirmation qu’il est possible et indispensable de s’intéresser aux itinéraires féminins. Il ne faut bien sûr pas les isoler artificiellement des parcours des hommes. C’est la démarche comparative et la prise en compte des interactions, de la construction des rôles genrés, qui permettent de s’interroger sur les spécificités des trajectoires, sur ce qui est propre à l’un ou l’autre genre. Existe-t-il des comportements, des risques, mais aussi des opportunités spécifiques pesant sur les parcours de vie féminins ? Les 13 contributions rassemblées dans ce livre répondent à cette interrogation en se centrant d’une part sur la mobilité, les migrations, d’autre part sur la maternité. Elles couvrent une période allant du 17e au 20e siècle, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, avec une large place accordée au Québec.
Historical demography, like all the other social sciences, had women in the very core of its research agenda. Females were however hidden behind the couple, the family, or the (male) social status. This book claims that it is possible and necessary to investigate female trajectories. Of course, they cannot be artificially isolated from the male life courses. It is the comparative approach, the analysis of interactions of the construction of gender roles that highlight the specificities of biographies from a gender perspective. Do behaviors, risks but also opportunities exist that specifically affected women’s life courses? The 13 contributions of this book provide several answers. They are centered on two main issues, mobility and migration on the one hand, maternity on the other hand. A period from the 17th to the 20th century is covered, in Europe and North America, with a large focus on Québec.
Historical demography, like all the other social sciences, had women in the very core of its research agenda. Females were however hidden behind the couple, the family, or the (male) social status. This book claims that it is possible and necessary to investigate female trajectories. Of course, they cannot be artificially isolated from the male life courses. It is the comparative approach, the analysis of interactions of the construction of gender roles that highlight the specificities of biographies from a gender perspective. Do behaviors, risks but also opportunities exist that specifically affected women’s life courses? The 13 contributions of this book provide several answers. They are centered on two main issues, mobility and migration on the one hand, maternity on the other hand. A period from the 17th to the 20th century is covered, in Europe and North America, with a large focus on Québec.
Résumé des informations
- Pages
- X, 360
- Année
- 2009
- ISBN (Broché)
- 9783039117383
- Langue
- français
- Mots clés
- Demographie Etudes des femmes et du genre Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. X, 360 p., nombr. tabl. et graph.
